Poetry & poetics
7 worksPoems, verse drama, and arguments about what poetry is and what it is for.
Sidney's defence of imaginative writing against its Puritan detractors, written around 1580 and published after his death in two editions of 1595, one titled The Defence of Poesie, the other An Apologie for Poetrie.
The Conquest of Granada is a Restoration era stage play, a two-part tragedy written by John Dryden that was first acted in 1670 and 1671 and published in 1672.
The Anniversary Discourses Jones delivered to the Asiatick Society of Bengal, and his essays from Asiatick Researches: the contents of the first volume of his Works (1799).
This book collects together lectures on English poetry Hazlitt delivered at London’s Surrey Institution in 1818, ranging from ‘On Poetry in General’, through acknowledged classics such as Chaucer, Spenser and…
Peacock's mock-history of poetry through ages of iron, gold, silver and brass, first printed in Ollier's Literary Miscellany in 1820.